I Loved Lucy

During the last decade of Lucille Ball’s life, one of her closest friends was Lee Tannen, a man nearly 40 years her junior. Closer than friends, they were more like family.

I’m in the middle of reading a wonderful book by him titled “I Loved Lucy” I’ll post the highlights of the book as I go along!

One of the first things to amuse me was in a part of the book where the author’s talking about Lucy’s love of games:

“When we were together, we played word games in dressing rooms, hotel rooms, and airport lounges. Lucy was the only one I knew who played Jetto in her head without pencil and paper. When we weren’t together, Lucy would call me up and without even a ‘Hello,’ she would spell, ‘P-C-H-E-O’ and I would have to mix up the letters to form a word. I would say, ‘Epoch,’ she’d call me a smart-ass and hang up. She loved to do stuff like that. Lucy was big on games and small on talk. And once she learned how to play backgammon, she rarely played anything else. And if you didn’t play along with Lucy, you didn’t stay very long with Lucy. It was that simple.”

Joi

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